Vegetarians .. Vegans and the like …

Originally Posted by ClemsonSV

I'm pretty sure I use my incisors when eating a bigmac. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to get a bite off, rather I'd have to rip it up with my bare hands like some cave man eating raw meat so I could get it back to my molars!

exactly, so you don't really need them. i think incisors are prolly more useful eating raw fruit and veg than meat.

Originally Posted by sarah

exactly, so you don't really need them. i think incisors are prolly more useful eating raw fruit and veg than meat.

No, they are not! My point was try eating meat with Molars, it would take ages to slice up the meat.

Any dentists here who can clear up 100% what teeth are designed to do what. I though the front flat ones were for biting through, the insisors for shreading and tearing( mainly meat) and the molars for crushing compacting?

So if insisors are useless and designed for veg why does every meat eating mamal have them??

but we still have canines which are for tearing through meat.

Originally Posted by sarah

exactly, so you don't really need them. i think incisors are prolly more useful eating raw fruit and veg than meat.

exactly...therefore "I" need them, neither of us could bite an apple or a hamburger or anything for that matter without them...they are just as usefull in either case. You can always cut up your veggies little kid style just as easy as I can cut up my steak little kid style...but why. I need my teeth. Plus my celebrity smile wouldn't be as appealing without them

Originally Posted by Law

but we still have canines which are for tearing through meat.

canines like that would actually work. the underdeveloped ones we have are pretty useless

Originally Posted by sarah

canines like that would actually work. the underdeveloped ones we have are pretty useless

Still disagree, i dont think you would be abble to eat very well with out them, especially a big fat juicy steak

Originally Posted by neio79

Still disagree, i dont think you would be abble to eat very well with out them, especially a big fat juicy steak

try tearing through the flesh of your arm. would take a while with the very blunt teeth that humans have

Originally Posted by eviltwin

try tearing through the flesh of your arm. would take a while with the very blunt teeth that humans have

It would take even longer on just Molars!

Originally Posted by eviltwin

try tearing through the flesh of your arm. would take a while with the very blunt teeth that humans have

If you can't bite through your skin you aren't trying hard enough. Most of the tearing ability comes from the sheering force you apply when you bite down.

Originally Posted by eviltwin

try tearing through the flesh of your arm. would take a while with the very blunt teeth that humans have

Ow! I'm bleeding. It's all your fault ET.